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A HILL you may say is a hill; take a bill, Or a group of them forming an island, Range, or peninsula. Here’s the benign Slope, thrust of deceptive hand Green-gloved over the strong racked bones Of earth assaulting sky. Follow the up, The flow, the final burst in the sun; Measure the cone; a hill, you perceive, is a hill. A man you may say is a man; but when He’s extended himself to the hill, included The spur and the curve in the light of his Knowing how this was formed; pondered if Time, place, thought and strewn heaven Matter a tinker’s curse; noticed the blue Haze hills absorb from the sea, clouds Cumbering the island; known the slight Fear of far hills, and the sweet solace Of these, being home; then we consider again Well. what is a hill? Is it a hill,
_ Or a hill through the eyes.of one human? —
Ruth
France
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 539, 21 October 1949, Page 9
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158Object Lesson New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 539, 21 October 1949, Page 9
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